Blog#7: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Hello! I’m Natsumi Shiraishi.

 

Today, I will introduce one of my summer vacation memories.

I went to Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno on September 6^th.

I’m not so much interested in arts, but my mother likes museum, so I was taken by her. First, I was surprised to see many people in Ueno. I didn’t think Ueno was so crowded a place. But I understood the reason that there was zoo, a lot of museums and shopping malls.

 

The main arts in the museum was Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring‘. Do you know Vermeer? He is a very famous painter typical of Dutch arts of 17^th century. He painted about 30 works, and his works are exhibited transferring world.

 

There were Rembrandt’s, Frans Hals’s, Rubens’ works besides Vermeer’s. I had taken to Frans Hals’s work named ‘Laughing Boy’. The boy in the painting looks like live.

 

After we went to museum, we moved to Ginza and enjoyed shopping. It was a very happy day!

 

I recommend you to go the museum if you like arts, even if you are indifferent to. You will be attracted.

 

The museum’s HP is here.